Fortnite: All Heroes and Their Abilities

All Heroes and Their Abilities in Fortnite

One really great thing about Fortnite is the simple fact that you don’t have to choose between your preferred play style and your weapon of choice. While Fortnite has four different classes of heroes and a variety of different subclasses, any character can use any weapon. As such, you don’t have to consider weapon choice when figuring out which class of heroes you like the best but you do want to consider the different skills each character has.

The way it works is that there are four main types of heroes in Fortnite—Soldier, Ninja, Constructor, and Outlander. Each of these hero classes specializes in different areas of the game, although the skills you earn are not always the exact same for all heroes within the same class. There are base skills that are the same for all heroes in their respective classes and then additional skills that can only be unlocked by a particular type of character within that class. Keep in mind that while many players will find their favorite class of heroes and gravitate towards them, you will likely want to keep upgrading at least one character from each of the different classes in Fortnite. Certain missions will highlight different kinds of skill sets and you may not want to rely on someone else having the unlocked skills you need to make the mission go smoothly.

Here’s the complete breakdown of all the types of heroes in Fortnite and what skills you will be able to unlock based on which subclass your character falls into.

Soldier

All Heroes and Their Abilities in Fortnite

All Heroes in Soldier Class

• Advanced Tactics: Health and Ranged Weapon Damage increased 10%.
• Frag Grenade: Throws a short-range explosive (damage and energy based on level and evolution). The Soldier carries up to three grenades and can regenerate one used grenade every 25 seconds.
• Shockwave: Knocks back enemies within one tile and deals damage to any affected enemy.
• Debilitating Shots: Dealing ranged damage adds Vulnerability to that enemy, increasing damage taken from all sources for a short time, even from other team members.
• Survivalist: Killing with ranged damage heals the soldier a small amount.
• Assault Damage: Slight increase applied to all assault weapon damage.
• Quick Clip: Reduce reload speed during combat.
• Goin’ Commando: Fires mini-gun style weapon at rapid speed for huge damage.

Survivalist Only

• No Time To Bleed: Doubles amount healed by the Survivalist ability.
• Clean Living: Increases base health of the Soldier.

Rescue Trooper Only

• Steamy Aim: Reduces recoil of any melee weapon.
• Ammo Recovery: Gain small chance to automatically recover one ammo when damaging any enemy with an assault weapon.

Ninja

All Heroes and Their Abilities in Fortnite

All Heroes in Ninja Class

• Shinobi: Reduces fall damage.
• Throwing Stars: Hurls three damaging stars in quick succession; has a cool down before being used again.
• Mantis Leap: Can jump a second time while already jumping (note: this ability costs energy and cannot be chained together for infinite jumps).
• Dragon Slash: Spring forward and deal damage to all enemies within a half tile along the line of attack.
• Smoke Bomb: Create a cloud of gas that slows enemies and deals damage for the duration of the cloud.
• Assassination: Dealing sword damage applies the Assassination ability, which further increases sword damage by 5%; this effect lasts five seconds and can stack up to five separate times for a total of 25% bonus damage.
• Long-Sassin: Increases duration of your Assassination from 5 seconds to 11 seconds per hit.

Skirmisher Only

• Trained Throw: Reduces energy cost of Throwing Stars.
• Cascade: Throw an additional star when using Throwing Stars.
• Rain of Death: Throw yet another star when using Throwing Stars.
• Wings of the Dragon: Increases the range of Dragon Slash.
• Return of the Dragon: Reduces energy cost of Dragon Slash.
• Crescent Kick: Melee attack that causes stun.

Fleetfoot Only

• Fleet: Increases the Ninja’s base movement speed for faster walking.
• Soft Landing: Further reduces all fall damage from Shinobi skill by a higher percentage.
• Three Mantis Style: Significantly reduces the energy cost of Mantis Leap.

Assassin Only

• Easy Sword: Reduces sword combo attack energy cost by 60%.
• Easier Sword: Reduces sword combo attack energy cost by 80%.
• Praying Mantis: Increase the jump height when using Mantis Leap for a second jump.

Outlander Class

All Heroes and Their Abilities in Fortnite

All Heroes in Outlander Class

• Focus Acquisition: Increases chance to find double loot.
• In The Zone: After five successive hits with the pick axe, the pick axe will deal bonus damage.
• Loot Llama: Deploy a llama that anyone on the team can whack for easy resources.
• Anti-Material Charge: Charges forward and deals damage to structures or enemies, stunning them along the way.
• Phase Shift: Teleport quickly in the direction you are moving.
• Phased Out: Reduces cool down time on Phase Shift.

Shock Specialist Only

• Shock Tower: Places tower that launches stunning chain lightning at any enemy who approaches.
• Capacitor: Increases duration of Shock Tower placement.
• Supercapacitor: Further increases duration of Shock Tower.
• Up The Voltage: Increases damage of Shock Tower.
• Forked Lightning: Shock Tower launches additional bolts to attack multiple enemies.

Pathfinder Only

• TEDDY: Deploys a TEDDY unit to blast enemies who approach within four tiles.
• Passing Zone: Increases run speed while In The Zone is active.
• Keen Eyes: Reveals nearby containers with valuable loot while In The Zone is active.
• Keener Eyes: Increases Keen Eyes distance by one tile.
• Work, Work: Increases harvesting speed when hitting objects with the pick axe.

Constructor Class

All Heroes and Their Abilities in Fortnite

All Heroes in Constructor Class

• Creative Engineering: Increases build speed and lowers build costs.
• Bull Rush: Charges forward while dealing damage and knocking enemies back.
• Plasma Pulse: Deploys device that launches explosive pulses every half second for 10 seconds.
• Kinetic Overload: Deals plasma damage and critical hits with hardware melee weapons will cause knock back.
• BASE: Sets down a BASE object that affects all building pieces within three tiles, granting them damage resistance and dealing retaliation damage to any enemy who strikes the object with a melee attack.

Tank Only

• Shielded: Increases maximum shield health of the Constructor.
• Healthy: Increases maximum health of the Constructor.
• Actuated Attacks: Increases all blunt melee weapon damage.
• Hammer Criticals: Increases chance of critical hits with blunt melee weapons.

Base Only

• Automated Defenses: Increase BASE tile range effect by one.
• Safety Protocols: Increases damage resistance of BASE connected tiles.
• Electrified Floors: Floor segments connected to BASE also deal electricity damage when enemies walk on them.
• Long Rush: Increases Bull Rush distance.
• Emergency Override: Immediately ends Bull Rush cool down if the Constructor’s shield is reduced to 0.

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